[Grammar] Needing an advice !

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SweetThief

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Hi everyone!
" People with insomnia have one or more of the following: difficulty falling asleep, waking up often during the night and having trouble going back to sleep, waking too early in the morning and unrefreshing sleep."

Could anyone tells me why we use Ving in here ?
Thanks for answering me !
 

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Hi everyone!
" People with insomnia have one or more of the following: difficulty falling asleep, waking up often during the night and having trouble going back to sleep, waking too early in the morning and unrefreshing sleep."

Could anyone tells me why we use Ving in here ?
Thanks for answering me !

The sentence is badly constructed. It's wrong to say that people with insomnia have walking up often during the night.
The sentence would be OK if it started with:
"People with insomnia suffer from the following: ... " because although you don't "have" walking up often, you can "suffer from" waking up often.
The words you've bolded are nouns - gerunds.

By the way, 'advice' is uncountable. You can't have 'an advice'.
 

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The sentence is badly constructed. It's wrong to say that people with insomnia have walking up often during the night.
The sentence would be OK if it started with:
"People with insomnia suffer from the following: ... " because although you don't "have" walking up often, you can "suffer from" waking up often.
The words you've bolded are nouns - gerunds.

By the way, 'advice' is uncountable. You can't have 'an advice'.

Thank you very much! Could you tell me more about "nouns - gerunds" ? We use in which case ? Thanks!
 

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Thank you very much! Could you tell me more about "nouns - gerunds" ? We use in which case ? Thanks!
You can do a search for 'gerunds' on this site or Google, and you'll get a lot of information.
(That dash in 'nouns - gerunds' doesn't belong to the name. (It's not a hyphen). I just meant that a gerund is a noun)
 
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